Linux-Setup Digest #785, Volume #19 Sun, 8 Oct 00 03:13:20 EDT
Contents:
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (Steve Yelvington)
Re: IMWHEEL: automatic startup? (Phil Baker)
DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc (Alexandre Binette)
Re: Linux Mail Server ("Bradley J. Bartram")
SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ("Michael Jones")
Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (David_C)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP ("Andrew Pearce")
2 scsi cards ? (GBNSCHBACH)
Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted?? ("Dennis Abuan")
trouble with partitions (brashier)
Bios and 2 hard drives (Lucius)
Linux Installation (N.Vivek)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP (James)
Help with RH 7.0 installation (Victor S. Miller)
Re: trouble with partitions ("David ..")
Re: Bios and 2 hard drives (E J)
Re: trouble with partitions (E J)
Redhat 6.2 install woes ("Peter van Dam")
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From: Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:25:35 GMT
James wrote:
> Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
At the console, type "locate dhcpcd" and make sure you have it, probably in
/sbin. If you don't, find the dhcpcd rpm and install.
--
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From: Phil Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IMWHEEL: automatic startup?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:30:03 -0000
As root, try placing the following line in /etc/X11/Xsession
imwheel -kp
This works for Linux-Mandrake 7.1 (what I'm using now), and -should- work
for RH 6.1, AFIK. See the imwheel man page for explanation of the -p
option. I had trouble getting imwheel -k to work for non-privalaged users
before adding the -p option. Then restart X.
Hope that helps.
Phil
Nelson Hogg wrote:
>
> I would like imwheel to start up automatically but, try as I might, I
> can't seem to do it. With redhat 6.1 what startup file should I put the
> line "imwheel -k" in? Thanks, Nelson Hogg
>
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Subject: DSL with a Nortel Modem on Linuxppc
From: Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:41:15 GMT
Hi!
I just installed Linuxppc on my iMac DV SE, and I'm not able to install
correctly my DSL connection. It would be great if anybody could tell me all
the steps to get the DSL working!
Thank you very much,
========
A.
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From: "Bradley J. Bartram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:52:59 GMT
>From my research on the subject, which I admit is not at expert level, the
practicle limitation of a standard mtu such as sendmail or postfix is
between 65K and 75K due to the time involved in validating a user in a
conventional manner. Once you get to that point it takes too long to ind
and validate a user under default user authentication methods.
The way around that, of course, is to have your users authenticate against a
database, much the same as in a large RADIUS config. That way you have
optimized authentications and you can push, if I remember correctly, about
100-200K more users out.
Of course, at that point, if you have your mail going through one box,
you're asking for trouble. If you have more than 10K users, I would set up
a second mail server and start balancing up the load. A system that can
hadle that load is cheap, probably looking at under 3k for a beige box with
a decent raid array.
But then again who knows, I'd provide footnotes to this data, but it's late
and I'm just too lazy to dig them out. :)
Brad
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rlehh$qkg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.os.linux.networking David Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Solaris can handle a Double Long Word of users and while that is
> > platform independant, it is a large number nonetheless (a lot more than
> > 500,000 or even 5,000,000 users) the limitation is a BSD and Linux
> > limitation and not really a big problem because if you have that many
users,
> > you should invest in another machine for them anyhow.
>
> --->
>
> It's a problem. And... here's why.
>
> It is convenient in a private net to allot every user their own UID.
> That way, ownership of files over the net is maintained. Pick a simple
> way to generate a new UID -- eg. employee number. Now, my employee
> number is (say) 886192. And that would be my UID on Solaris, and
> the Unix network. Now, bring Linux into the mix. By default, Linux
> 2.0 allowed you to use NIS to log into such a network, but would
> reduce the UID modulo 65K (just take the low sixteen bits). You can
> log on, but are a different user, and file ownership is an issue!
> Linux 2.2 is a bit better?!?. IT WON'T LET YOU LOG ON. And that's a
> serious hassle.
>
> Of course, a single machine doesn't have that many users, but
> a network may well.
>
> Linux will have to grow up a bit more.
>
> Ratboy.
> Solaris Hacker/Linux User
> I don't speak for my employer.
>
> > "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Raymond Doetjes wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Uhhm neither Linux nor FreeBSD or any other Unix system can hold
500.000
> > mailboxes
> >> > and therefor users.
> >> > The password wile can only handle 64K on users. thats no 500000
users!
> >>
> >> The clients don't have to have accounts on the primary server.
> >> There are several ways to handle this, including subdomains and
> >> hash functions on the username, which assign the traffic to
> >> secondary servers.
> >>
> CUT----
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From: "Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 03:57:38 GMT
I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
sources. Here are the particulars:
I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
Red Hat's web page says that I should append
fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
fdomain=0x140,10,7
But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts
SCSI 0 det total
Which tells me that it is just not seeing that darn card.
Anyone have any suggestions. I cannot access my Zip drive until I get
this working.
Thanks in advance for any assistance given. E-mail assistance
welcome, too.
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: 08 Oct 2000 00:06:36 -0400
"Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I posted the majority of this message to the linux.redhat.install
> group and have not received any advise. I need some assist getting RH
> 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 to recognize my Future Domain SCSI Card. This
> is probably a very basic matter, but has me stumped. If anyone can
> help I would appreciate it. I have read the HOWTOs and pertinent
> sections of the O'Reilly books Running Linux, Learning Red Hat Linux
> and Linux in a Nutshell. Could not find answers in any of those
> sources. Here are the particulars:
>
> I would like to add SCSI support for my Future Domain TMC 1610M.
>
> Red Hat's web page says that I should append
> fdomain=IO_base,IRQ[,ADAPTER_ID] . So my append would be:
>
> fdomain=0x140,10,7
>
> But it does not say what I am appending this information to...
>
> How do I enable this support. I tried adding that line to lilo.conf,
> without any change. Boot screen still says: SCSI 0 hosts SCSI 0 det
> total
Did you run /sbin/lilo after making your change to lilo.conf?
Did you add an appropriate "alias scsi_hostadapter" line to
/etc/modules.conf? Possibly also requiring an options line with your
card's configuration.
If you need access to the card at boot time, did you make an initial RAM
disk with the driver? (Since you're using it for your Zip disk and not
your hard drive, you probably don't require this).
-- David
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From: "Andrew Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 05:18:35 +0100
Have you put the 509 card in normal mode, ie not pnp? if not, download the
drivers from 3com and
configure it as normal network card. Turn off the Plug and Play setting.
Andrew
"James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem with
> dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
> network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
> domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
> Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
> net device: eth0
> kernel module: 3c509
> irq: 10
> ip: my ip
> the dhcp radio button is selected
>
> When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
> error. Here it is:
>
> Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> dhcp...faile
> > [FAILED]
>
> And that's that. No internet connection. I've already read a couple of
> how-to's (especially cable modem, dhcp mini-howto, and the ethernet
> howto) and they didn't help.
>
> I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509B)
>
> Any help is appreciated! Getting frustrated and wanting to switch back
> to Winblowz.
>
> James L
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GBNSCHBACH)
Date: 08 Oct 2000 04:18:28 GMT
Subject: 2 scsi cards ?
Dear ALL,
If you have RedHat 6.1 or 6.2, and you want to have
the boot disk on one card, and a tape drive and a second
disk on a second scsi card.... Will the system recognize
both scsi cards, or will I have to live with one card ?
Also, lets say you own an Adaptec 1542, and your second
card is an Avansys..... is mixing brands a bad thing ?
Just wondering if anyone has tried this sort of config ?
Thanks in advance.....
Greg
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From: "Dennis Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Laptop backup on mkfs2 linux partion halted??
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:51:10 GMT
I just tried to do a backup of my laptop hard drive using Veritas backup Pro
to a shared linux samba drive that has15GB of free space.
After I came back, the backup halted at 2.88GB with a warning saying that
the backup was stopped because this is the largest filesize that the
filesystem
can make and the backup aborted.
Is there an work around for this??? any settings that I have to know???
I'm currently running Redhat 6.2 on a 20GB IBM Hard drive. The partition
that I'm copying to was formated using:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1
Thanks again for all your help.
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From: brashier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble with partitions
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:56:18 GMT
In my newbie wisdom, I thought to use an older pc only as a linux
machine. That's right, I completely deleted ALL the DOS partitions! Now
about 2 years later, I want to use the machine for something else and I
cannot undo my error.
The pc is running a basic version of redhat 5.2, (no peripherals, or
added apps) and the only utilities I have are the linux fdisk, and disk
druid. I want to reload the original os (w/95) and then go from there.
Any suggestions?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Lucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bios and 2 hard drives
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:18:13 -0600
Hi all,
I'm trying to get two hard drives working. They're installed and
recognized. One has dual boot linux/freebsd with lilo doing the booting.
The other will have dual boot when I figure out other problems. Right
now I've managed to install OpenBSD in virtue of installing from cdrom
on boot up. When I try to boot from hard disk lilo hangs with "LI"
echoed to the screen.
What I don't understand is how bios works. I was under the impression
that some how the bios would provide me with a choice of which HD to
boot from, once that choice was I would then have to chose which OS to
boot.
Both drives are Maxtor, one is 13.5 the other 15.2gigs. One, the
working dual booter is the primary master, the other is the primary
slave.
How does what I'm trying to do work? That is: first select the hard
drive then the OS. Is it possible to boot the OS's on the slave from
the master disk, or is that the only way?
cheers Jullian
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From: N.Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Installation
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 05:30:07 -0000
Hi1
I have got a Pentium2 450mhz PC Running Windows 98.I have a 8 GB Hard disc
partioned Into 3 Drives[FAT32]. I want to Install Caldera Systems Openb
Linux eDesktop 2.4 In to One of the Drives But Want To retain Windows and
other files on the other two drives. Any Suggetions..???
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 05:59:03 GMT
Ha, lucky me. The 3com site happens to be down!
Andrew Pearce wrote:
> Have you put the 509 card in normal mode, ie not pnp? if not, download the
> drivers from 3com and
> configure it as normal network card. Turn off the Plug and Play setting.
>
> Andrew
>
> "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem with
> > dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
> > network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
> > domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
> > Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
> > net device: eth0
> > kernel module: 3c509
> > irq: 10
> > ip: my ip
> > the dhcp radio button is selected
> >
> > When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
> > error. Here it is:
> >
> > Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> > dhcp...faile
> > > [FAILED]
> >
> > And that's that. No internet connection. I've already read a couple of
> > how-to's (especially cable modem, dhcp mini-howto, and the ethernet
> > howto) and they didn't help.
> >
> > I have a 3com Etherlink III (3c509B)
> >
> > Any help is appreciated! Getting frustrated and wanting to switch back
> > to Winblowz.
> >
> > James L
> >
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Subject: Help with RH 7.0 installation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 06:05:26 GMT
I've installed RH 7.0 on my Dell system with a Pentium MMX and 64Meg
memory. I've run into the following problems, and hope that someone
can help me (or provide me with pointers)
1) I have an IDE Zip drive (100 meg), and if there isn't a disk
inserted in the drive when I try to boot the system hangs.
2) I initially installed Lilo in the MBR (at least that's what I told
installation to do). When it starts to boot it just prints "L" and
hangs. I found by searching around that this is related to having
the boot partition past cylinder 1024 on my hard disk. In order to
be able to boot Windows, I had to revert to the old windows boot
record, and boot Linux from a floppy. Is there any way that I can
fix the partition problem, short of removing Linux and its
partition and starting all over again.
3) Linux decided that I have a standard 101 key keyboard (which is
what I have, and Windows thinks I have). It works fine for the
most part in Linux except that backspace and delete generate some
sort of weird sequence which is NOT being interpreted as backspace
and delete respectively. What can I set in Linux to get the proper
behavior.
4) When Linux boots, one of the messages is that insmod has a problem
with my sound blaster 16, and as a result it doesn't work. It
works fine from windows (I have all the IRQ settings and I/O ranges
written down). What do I need to do to get this operating
properly?
5) I have an Intel Ether Express 10 (which, as far as I can tell has a
driver eepro.o). How do I set it up? It wasn't autodected by
setup (I don't know why)?
6) The ethernet card is connected to a Linksys BEFSR41 router which
uses DHCP to set the IP addresses and name server addresses. How
do I get that info setup?
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble with partitions
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 01:08:06 -0500
brashier wrote:
>
> In my newbie wisdom, I thought to use an older pc only as a linux
> machine. That's right, I completely deleted ALL the DOS partitions! Now
> about 2 years later, I want to use the machine for something else and I
> cannot undo my error.
>
> The pc is running a basic version of redhat 5.2, (no peripherals, or
> added apps) and the only utilities I have are the linux fdisk, and disk
> druid. I want to reload the original os (w/95) and then go from there.
> Any suggestions?
Boot into linux and run "/sbin/lilo -u"
Then use linux fdisk and delete all the linux partitions.
Reboot with a DOS/windoz bootdisk and run "fdisk /MBR"
Then format the drive and install windoz.
Hope this helps.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bios and 2 hard drives
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:22:14 -0700
You need a small /boot partition about 16M at the beginning of the hard
drive.
The partition you are trying to boot up from is probably either above the
1024 cylinder area or the partition is large enough
that it has crossed over the 1024 cylinder.
Lucius wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get two hard drives working. They're installed and
> recognized. One has dual boot linux/freebsd with lilo doing the booting.
>
> The other will have dual boot when I figure out other problems. Right
> now I've managed to install OpenBSD in virtue of installing from cdrom
> on boot up. When I try to boot from hard disk lilo hangs with "LI"
> echoed to the screen.
>
> What I don't understand is how bios works. I was under the impression
> that some how the bios would provide me with a choice of which HD to
> boot from, once that choice was I would then have to chose which OS to
> boot.
>
> Both drives are Maxtor, one is 13.5 the other 15.2gigs. One, the
> working dual booter is the primary master, the other is the primary
> slave.
>
> How does what I'm trying to do work? That is: first select the hard
> drive then the OS. Is it possible to boot the OS's on the slave from
> the master disk, or is that the only way?
>
> cheers Jullian
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble with partitions
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:26:00 -0700
Get out your windows floppy that you created and boot up with it.
a:> fdisk
delete all the partition and create windows partition.
Now you can reboot and install windows from your CD.
brashier wrote:
> In my newbie wisdom, I thought to use an older pc only as a linux
> machine. That's right, I completely deleted ALL the DOS partitions! Now
> about 2 years later, I want to use the machine for something else and I
> cannot undo my error.
>
> The pc is running a basic version of redhat 5.2, (no peripherals, or
> added apps) and the only utilities I have are the linux fdisk, and disk
> druid. I want to reload the original os (w/95) and then go from there.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Peter van Dam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.2 install woes
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:00:49 +0200
Hi,
I have installed Redhat 6.2 on a new AMD machine without problems.
However, I cannot start the system. The error I receive is:
CPU AMD AMD Duron(TM) Processor stepping 00
Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore... done.
Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c02340f4>]
EFLAGS: 0010282
(snip more numbers)
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
If you like I can provide the other numbers (eax, esi, ds,
process swapper, stack, call trace, code) but I don't know
if they are significant at this stage.
Please help!
-peter
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